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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
A special tabloid section of
s paper’s Wednesday edition
:tured many scenes of ac
ity at Griffin Tech and on
ursday night open house was
Id there. Many attended and
:re pleased with what they
w and what they learned
out how the school is filling a
eat need in the community,
iffin Tech is a decided asset
the community and state.
A Griffin golfer playing on the
ckson golf course died of a
art attack. He was Bobby
al McCullough.
It was announced the “Lion
•untry Safari” would be ready
• its opening in June. It will be
:ated in Henry County.
Dr. Jerry M. Williamson,
an of Clayton Junior College,
is named President of Gordon
inior College at Barnesville.
Griffin High ROTC was busy
eparing for annual parade to
• held Wednesday.
Mrs. Kay Hentz was named
riffin Young Woman of the
ear by the Jaycettes.
The referendum to change
lies governing election of
ihool Board Members will be
•Id May 30.
Griffin will raise electric light
id power rates.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, after
inducting a poll to see what
eorgians wanted him to do,
inounced he would not run
;ainst Senator Gambrell and
at his present intentions are to
ice again seek the office of
overnor.
A special session of the
eorgia General Assembly
omed. If it is called it will
•gin within ten days and will
>ek to untangle the reap
ortionment plan for Assembly
lembers.
United Methodist leaders
■om round the world gathered
i Atlanta to hold the church’s
uadrennial conference.
The College of American
:atholic Bishops wound up its
meeting in Atlanta.
The Board of Regents an
ounced increase in tuition at
Georgia colleges and univer
ities.
Apollo 16 Sunday started its
ourney to the “Highlands” on
tie moon.
President Nixon returned
rom a trip across the border to
•isit Canada.
A mighty quake in Southern
ran left more than 4,000 dead.
The Soviet Union signed a 15-
•ear friendship and defense
reaty with Iraq.
Washington announced Uncle
tom was ready to bomb all of
•forth Vietnam if necessary.
Dr. Dunaway
nominated
to board
Dr. Jim Dunaway of Griffin is
one of 25 doctors nominated for
the state Human Resources
Board. Five of the 25 nominees
eventually will be named to the
board.
The Medical Association of
Georgia (MAG) and Gov.
Jimmy Carter made proposals
for the list of 25 nominees. MAG
picks from the list from Carter
included Dr. Dunaway in the
Sixth District.
“The most important thing
most of us can do for the world
is to improve ourselves.”
Boat plunge
kills two men
Two Riverdale, Ga., men
were killed when their semi
cabin cruiser went over the dam
at lake Jackson Sunday at 12:26
a.m.
Killed instantly was Jack R.'
Wambles, 29. Lloyd Arnold
Chumley, 33, was treated at a
Monticello, Ga., hospital in
Jasper County before being
transferred to a Macon hospital.
He died this morning of injuries.
Campers in the Lake Jackson
area heard the boat as it
crashed over the dam and
notified Butts and Jasper
County Sheriff’s officials.
The cruiser went over the
dam on the Jasper County side,
according to Butts County
coroner John Sherrell.
Mr. Sherrell arrived at the
scene about 1:30 after being
called by investigators.
The cruiser landed in a rocky
area after falling some 60 or 75
feet. Tte two Riverdale men
were the occupants of the craft.
Investigators said the dam
was properly marked with
bouys and other warning
devices.
The two men who had been
fishing apparently did not see
the warnings and were on the
edge of the dam before they
knew what had happened, in
vestigators speculated.
Both men were employed by
Georgia Highway Express.
Investigators said a watch on
one of the victims stopped at
12:26 a.m. Sunday and that’s
how they fixed the time of the
accident.
Weather
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87, low yesterday 64, low tonight
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sunset tomorrow 7:04.
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ALATOONA, Pa.-Glenn Hess, Jr., decided it was high time
to take a rest after finishing a 15-mile trek on stilts. Nearly
10,000 hikers braved cool and rainy weather to participate in
the March of Dimes walk-a*thon but none took fewer or
larger steps than Hess on the five-hour trip. (UP!)
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Trouble flares
at Social Circle
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (UPI)
—A black church between here
and Mcnroe was burned and a
white woman was wounded by
Slots fired through her house
trailer as racial trouble flared
anew over the weekend.
A spokesman for the Social
Circle Police Department said
Monday “I imagine both sides
(black and white) are carrying
guns, although you don’t see
them.”
The spokesman said the shoot
ing was the fourth in four days
in white neighborhoods and sent
the unidentified woman to a
hospital. He said police had no
leads in the case.
“The bullet went plumb
through her leg but it didn’t hit
any bones,” the spokesman
said. “She said she was lying
in bed when she was hit and
then jumped up hollering and
screaming. Then she saw the
hole in the wall from the bul
let." .
Diabetic tests
scheduled here
The Spalding Health
Department and the Spalding
Home Economics Clubs will
sponsor the next diabetic test
clinic. It is scheduled Thursday
from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m. at the
health center.
People planning to come for
the tests were told to eat a good
lunch two hours before being
tested.
The tests are free. Persons
showing possible diabetic
symptoms will be referred to
their family doctor.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 17, 1972
The black church burned had
been the site of the funeral two
months ago of James Gober, a
black man shot at the home of
a white woman. It was Gober’s
death that touched off unrest in
this city of 2,000, which is about
half white and half black.
The spokesman said he did
not know if the church fire was
set.
In the past two months there
have been a couple dozen set
fires here, students walkouts at
schools and a threatened boycott
of stores by blacks. Tension ap
parently had eased by Friday
before the new eruption.
Shred puzzles moon crew
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI)—Apollo 16 sped accur
ately toward the moon today,
while engineers tried to deter
mine what caused an insulating
coating on the lunar lander to
shred and blister like paint
peeling off a weathered bam.
The problem was so perplex
ing that cool, veteran mission
commander John W. Young told
Mission Control, “I’m not
normally a rabble-rouser, but
there is just something funny
going on here.”
Tie difficulty, however, ap
peared confined to one small
panel on the lander, and flight
director M. Pete Frank said
that Young, Thomas K. Mat
tingly, and Charles M. Duke
iiould be able to go ahead with
plans to land in the middle of
the moon’s unexplored high
lands Thursday.
The asttronauts were not
concerned, and, before going to
sleep about 4 a.m.. EST,
Mattingly remarked, “This is
really a ball.”
Engineers quickly began a
series of experiments to see
what turned the smooth two
layer, grayish-brown paint into
something resembling what
GHS students sign up to vote
Between three and four hund
red Griffin High School students
will register to vote this week,
according to registrar Joe
Burson.
The students, who must be 18-
years-old by Nov. 7, are being
brought to the court house in
groups of 25 during their study
periods.
Taking one more step toward
adulthood, the young people will
gain full adult status on July 1
or by their 18th birthday, which
ever comes last.
As of the July deadline, 18-
year-olds will have full adult
legal rights as provided in a bill
passed by the 1972 General
Assembly.
Several Griffin High students
commented on what they would
do with their new status:
“I’m going to teach my. little
brother how to drive,” said Gail
Hyatt. Until the new law was
passed, a driver 21 or older had
to accompany a learning driver.
“I think I may go into busi
ness,” said Randy Grimsley,
pointing out that now 18-year
olds will be able to make con-
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Duke called “shredded wheat.”
Nothing Wrong
There was nothing wrong
with the command ship. If the
moon landing were called off
for some reason, Apollo 16 still
would swing into lunar orbit
Wednesday and map the moon
for six days.
Project officials, hoover,
appeared confident the $445
million, 12-day mission would
proceed as planned.
The goal is to sample for the
first time the mountainous
terrain that makes up three
fourths of the moon’s surface.
This should give scientists a
better understanding of the
moon’s early days 3 to 4.5
billion years ago when it was
wracked by volcanism and
heavy meteoroid bombardment.
The mystery began three
hours after launch from Cape
Kennedy Sunday. When the
astronauts turned the command
diip Casper around and got
their first look at the lunar
module Orion, Duke reported
seeing “a lot of white
particles” coming from it.
Concern grew in Mission
Control when Young got a look
later at Orion in the bright sun
tracts. “Os course, I may go to
college.”
Sally Walker plans simply to
try to be an adult in every way.
Marion Strickland plans to
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Spalding County Registrar Joe Burson processes Griffin
High student through voter registration lines at court house.
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Apollo 16 leaves Cape Kennedy for moon.
and said:
“I see something coming off
the lunar module now. It looks
like it’s coming out of a vent or
something. This is definitely
coming out in a stream right
now.”
Spacecraft Entered
This suggested a gas was
leaking from the lander. Young
and Duke were ordered to enter
the attached spacecraft a day
ahead of schedule to check its
systems.
After the astronauts applied
power to the lander’s in
struments, controllers were
able to read engineering
measurements that were ra
dioed back. They found nothing
wrong.
Nevertheless, the astronauts
said the coating on a thin
aluminum panel covering a set
of tanks for control rockets had
curled up and looked like
shredded wheat.
“It’s very perplexing as to
what caused the skin to
degrade but at this time there
is no undue concern about it,”
the spokesman said at mid
night.
Before going to sleep after
their first day in space, the
futher her education to better
prepare herself for adult
responsibilities.
“Nothing more than I’m
doing now,” summed up Chip
moon pilots turned the 50-ton
spaceship around and photo
graphed the Earth in ultraviolet
light that is not visible to man.
This experiment was planned to
help scientists better prepare
for robot probes of other
planets using ultraviolet sen
sors.
Will Use Weightlessness
Later today, the astronauts
planned to use the weightless
ness of space to test an
improved process to purify
mobile materials. If successful,
the space agency said the
demonstration might lead to the
economical production of vac
cines in space stations.
Young and Duke will spend 73
hours on an undulating plateau
north of the crater Descartes,
situated on the lower right side
of the moon’s face as viewed
from earth.
Mattingly will remain in
lunar orbit, mapping the moon
with sophisticated cameras and
radiation sensors.
All three astronauts will
leave moon orbit April 25 and
splash down in the Pacific
three days later.
Smith’s plans.
Jimi Green said he plans to go
to Panama City, Fla., where he
hopes to become a successful
rock star.
Burson expects to register as many as 400 students by
Wednesday.
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midnight
“Go out and vote”, was Andy
Reid’s comment.
“There’s going to be a wild
party at my house,” announced
Eddie Andrews.